Even Revkin admits this absolutely massive inconvenient truth: "even a perfect greenhouse policy is unlikely to have a measurable influence on such [extreme weather] threats"

...in the case of Hurricane Sandy, any role for greenhouse gases was a background influence, even according to Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who’s been one of the most vocal scientists using extreme weather to make a case for emissions action...Rosenberg’s second point, that even a perfect greenhouse policy is unlikely to have a measurable influence on such threats, is buttressed by Brad Plumer’s relevant recent Washington Post analysis of how little even aggressive carbon dioxide reductions would affect the pace at which sea levels rise